Wayne Simmons, a frequent Fox News “CIA expert,” was arrested Thursday after being indicted by a federal grand jury on charges lied about his service with the CIA. CNN reports that: Simmons is accused of falsely claiming that he worked as an “outside paramilitary special operations officer” for the CIA from 1973 to 2000. On […]
The New York Times published a blistering report on Monday discussing the role of conservative media – “far-right” sites – and talk radio hosts in influencing the Republican Party, focusing particularly on how they are portraying Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) as a traitor to conservatism in an effort to block the push by many Republicans […]
The GOP 2016 frontrunner took to Twitter and complained that the The O’Reilly Factor wasn’t kind to him because they didn’t post his “great polls” .@oreillyfactor was very negative to me in refusing to to post the great polls that came out today including NBC. @FoxNews not good for me! — Donald J. Trump […]
You might recall that at the National Conference for Media Reform 2008 Bill O’Reilly producer Porter Barry ambushed PBS’ Bill Moyers to pepper him with questions regarding his political affiliations and his “refusal” to appear on O’Reily’s show. However, as it turned out Moyers ended up making Barry look like the fool he […]
Dick Cheney has been pounding the conservative media circuit lately promoting his latest book effort at revisionist history, “Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America,” co-authored by his daughter Liz Cheney. The Cheneys have also been promoting war in the Middle East, claiming President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran is a mistake – essentially […]